Judge Roger Vinson in Pensacola, Fla., sentenced Marcus Schrenker on Wednesday. Beforehand, the amateur daredevil pilot gave a long, rambling speech in which he sobbed and asked forgiveness from his family, air traffic controllers and Florida Panhandle residents.

Schrenker's single-engine Piper Malibu landed behind a Panhandle neighborhood Jan. 11 after he bailed out over Alabama and left the plane to drift on autopilot. He had planned for it land in the Gulf of Mexico, but it ran out of fuel. No one was hurt.